Robert Frank: Zero Mostel Reads a Book

by Robert Frank

A delightful moment of slapstick in Robert Frank's oeuvre

The female subject absorbed in a book has prompted masterworks from Vermeer, Monet, Vuillard and Matisse, among many others. Less often portrayed are men in the act of reading--even Manet's portrait of ?mile Zola depicts the writer staring away from his open volume. Is it the supposed passivity of this act that has discouraged men from modeling it? This mini-genre remains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865215866
• ISBN13: 9783865215864
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.7"